(June 27, 2014 at 12:20 am)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Theists will basically just say that God gave us free will, so he cannot know (in advance) what we will do because for him to do so would mean determinism is true, and the type of free will they use here (libertarian free will) is not one with which such a determinism is compatible.
But if God exists in some realm beyond space-time and is not subject to contingency, why is his knowledge time-bound? It seems to me that such believers will trade off one of God's supposed attributes (omniscience) as part of some desperate gambit to absolve God of the monstrous conclusions Calvin came to. "Our God isn't a wicked, arbitrary tyrant. The damned must deserve their fates -- they just must!"
